odge was the incumbent of twoterms in the Senate. JFK prevailed in the victory but was soon stricken withAddison’s disease during his first year in the Senate and had to operate on a50-50 chance for survival procedure. While recovering, Kennedy wroteProfiles in Courage, a bestseller on examples of moral courage in the lives ofeight senators who risked their careers for a freat cause or a belief. Kennedyreturned to Senate and participated in the powerful Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee. He was also chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor. JFK believed strongly in education, equal job opportunity, and the civil rightsmovement. His biggest success came in the form of his Labor Reform Billwhich passed by a margin on 90 to 1 in Senate debate. Kennedy’s first child,Caroline, was born during this time.Due to his enormous success in Congress, the Democratic partynominated him for the presidential tichet in 1960. Lyndon Johnson waschosen as the running mate with Kennedy to secure and build upon thedemocratic bases in the southern states while the Kennedys sought out theyounger voters, the factory workers, and the liberals.During the Kennedy Administration, a great deal of events were goingon. Jackie had given birth to JFK, Jr., while all over the south, the civil rightsmovement was going in full force with incidents breaking out. Specificattention gathered around a black air force veteran, James Meredith, appliedfor admission to the University of Mississippi. In Cuba both the Bay of Pigsoccured, in which U.S. supported rebels revolted in a poorly laid out plan ofevents that fell out beneath them, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in which theSoviet Republic were building missile silos in Cuba, 100 miles away fromFlorida. The Space Race was in full force with both Russia and the U.S. incompetition to reach the moon. U.S. involvement in Vietnam was in thelatter stages with plans to withdraw after the 1964 election.On a tr...
